Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In the last week, I’ve interviewed three different volunteer engagement professionals about volunteer retention as their organizations are in various stages of reopening and recovery from the pandemic-related restrictions on volunteer engagement. I am particularly fond of the model of 5 Levels of Delegation. Level 1: Do as I say.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Prediction: in 5 years using an AI writing tool that will be trained on your style and tone will become the standard. Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? More sophisticated tools can actually write larger sections of text based on prompts in a way that mimics the style they are trained on.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You should also acknowledge that your Board members each have different skills and personalities, and some will be better at asking for money than others. Start by identifying the skills, expertise, and connections you need in new Board members to take your organization to the next level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. To facilitate this process, your consultant will lead interviews with your stakeholders, including your board, to gather their unbiased feedback. Let’s begin.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

From low compensation to lack of training, the pursuit of minimal overhead has resulted in anemic spending on human capital.”. Whether hiring a professional HR manager, outsourcing HR functions or recruiting an experienced board member, nonprofits need to cultivate a strategy to recruit, train and retain top talent.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 4, 2014

Ever wondered about the do''s and don''ts of writing a: Business Apology Letter of Recommendation Job Advertisement Interview Follow-up Press Release Executive Summary Collection Letter Resignation Letter.then, the new book, How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide is for you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2015

Ever wondered about the do''s and don''ts of writing a: Business Apology Letter of Recommendation Job Advertisement Interview Follow-up Press Release Executive Summary Collection Letter Resignation Letter.then, the book, How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide is for you. She''s also taught composition and literature at Columbia University.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? Solis says successfully navigating the novel nonprofit economy will require a “new operating system” in which skills like creativity and innovation will be at a premium.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to build, train, steward, and replace your committee when it’s time. In fact, you can even task committee members with helping you find and train their replacements. Train and coach your event committee volunteers. Train and coach your event committee volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Laura shared why she is releasing the curriculum and the basic frameworks. To provide any giver—donating any amount of time, money, experience, skills or networks—with free access to research, learning and experience I’ve developed over the last two decades as a strategic philanthropist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. It’s something incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Brainstorm the skills, talents, and abilities you need so your marketing is clear. Be specific about what the volunteer will do, what skills are required, and how much of a time commitment you expect. Next, what are the required skills for the job? Stick to the skills that the job really requires, and don’t go overboard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Training Design. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

I recently read an article in the New York Times about conference for Gen Z who were learning entrepreneurial skills. When she was 14, Sejal founded the Elevator Project , an organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through apprenticeship, vocational training and job placement. I was so impressed that made a donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’ve developed a maturity of social media practice model called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&# I have used this to design peer learning programs, develop curriculum, and work one-on-one with organizations – here in the US and in places around the world. Providing staff training is essential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Opportunity Design is the process of understanding the required skills and experience for a given volunteer role.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Has always been the accidental techie in arts organizations, starting as a volunteer, so how can can I transition and set a dollar value for my skills? Juggling different projects efficiently without adding overhead, and working with others with different skills as sub- or co-contractors? Confidentiality of sharing case studies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They're walking away with skills. Hopefully the project continues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). So we had to do a training program with the guards so they could understand teens and change their behavior in the gallery to make people more comfortable.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

the number of individuals receiving the services, number of trainings provided, number of animals rescued, etc.). Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. A Guide to Developing an Outcome Logic Model and Measurement Plan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course. Well, what it means is that you’re communicating, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We we use the “with” instead of the “for” perspective, we are able to see skills and contributions the community can make, opportunities for growth outside of your programs or your walls; we are able to see that we are part of a solution and not responsible for engineering the entire fix. But, we have to train them! Remember the car?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. She trains, coaches, and evangelizes internally on how to use social media. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Although Michelle has some deeply geeky skills, she writes from the perspective of a neo-luddite. Here's my interview: 1. I think that the nonprofit tech community in general operates a lot out of a gift economy model. What's very funny is that we were in school during the same two-year period, but we never met!

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